Cal, Stanford and SJSU football: News, links and dates

The last of three pre-preseason events has arrived for the local teams:

Coaches and players from Cal, Stanford and San Jose State will gather Wednesday morning at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the annual Bay Area college football media extravaganza, which follows the Mountain West and Pac-12 media extravaganzas of last week.

After the Levi’s festivities, which are presented by the San Francisco Bowl Game Association, the focus finally turns to practice.

SJSU gets underway Friday, while Cal and Stanford ramp up early next week. (The Spartans start a few days earlier because they play earlier, with a Thursday opener.)

I have a list of key dates below but wanted to catch readers up on news and links from the past week, for those who were on vacation or simply not paying attention. It’s July, after all.

*** News and links.

In my estimation, the most significant news of the summer comes from the Stanford camp:

Ty Montgomery, the top playmaker in the Bay Area, could miss the season opener against UC Davis … and possibly the Week 2 showdown vs. USC … as he recovers from surgery.

Also on the Stanford front: The duel for the backup QB spot isn’t much of a duel, after all, and David Shaw said he would consider playing SJSU at Levi’s Stadium.

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Kal might be more competitive this season, but that would only require one conference win. Fortunately they get Colorado at home – likely their only chance. Sac State is the only other game they will win this year.

Kal fans should be rooting for another bad season so they can get rid of Dykes

Cardinal Rule

I guess resuming the series with SJSU would be useful as long as the game is at Stanford Stadium or Levi Stadium. This traditional pre-season game provides a better test than scheduling an FCS team.

Makes a ton of sense for both schools…game is always played before Stanford is back in session…so, the normal issues of transportation to an off campus home game are significantly reduced. And, for at least a few years, the overall attendance will be much higher at Levi’s than it would be at Stanford as it will be a relatively inexpensive way to see a game in the new stadium.

SJSpartan1996

In case there is any doubt, I would like sjsu to play Stanford at Levi stadium too!

Candid One

Amen, SJSU has its ups-and-downs but it was a bowl team two years ago with Fales under MacIntyre.

IT_Pro47

Worry about your own Stunfraud house. You don’t know it’s a bad defensive backfield. No one does, because many of them haven’t been on the field yet. I DO know that your Squaws…err, Indians… umm… Cardinals (misspell intentional) lost a LOT of defensive players, and won’t be the same either. You want to bet some of your old-money inheritance on Cal under 3? I’ll take that action.

GO BEARS!!!

TheCardinalRules

You clearly have zero clue about Stanford’s defensive backfield which includes two All Pac-12 honorable mentions and three of the four who started games last year.

But facts were never important at CSU East Bay (North Campus).

Enjoy your team winning twice as many games as it did last year.

TheCardinalRules

Davis, Army, and ND are all FBS teams. In fact, going forward there are no FCS teams on Stanford’s OOC schedule and only one spot that isn’t already scheduled through 2017.

Cardinal Rule

Just a “nit” to pick… The UC Davis Aggies football team represents the University of California, Davis in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) intercollegiate competition. In 2014 they are still FCS (Division I-AA).

maddogsfavsnpiks

That’s a pretty big, well-documented “nit” there, CR. If you hadn’t knit him that shape-up sweater, i woulda… but, no need, as you did a helluva thorough job !
Dog save us, it’s UCDavis ! They play in the Big Sky Conference, btw, without much success lately. 4-7 / 4-7 / 5-7 has been their record the last 3 years, playing against the likes of Montana, Montana St, Cal Poly SLO, Sac St, Portland St, Eastern Washington, and so on…

maddogsfavsnpiks

@ IT Pro47
Well IT, let’s see, you’re probably one of those hairless Bares wishing you hadn’t called Tedford bad names now… Stunfraud ? That’s stunningly original. Is that “stun” as in how stunned you were last year at losing by an historic, unheard of, undogly amount of points… What was it now ? 50 ? Fifty !? …did you say 5 0 !!? ..that’s an all-time record Big Game MOV.. in what used to be a fairly competitive rivalry.
UCBerkeley ? — Dog have mercy !